Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court (SIGNED COPY) by: Felix Frankfurter
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with faded gilt title on spine. There is a ring stain to front cover where a glass had been placed. Otherwise a clean copy. 139 pages, b&w fronts. portrait of Holmes. INSCRIBED TO STEPHEN S. WISE BY FRANKFURTER; "For S.S.W. /With the best regards of/FF" Stephen Samuel Wise (March 17, 1874 - April 19, 1949) was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Joining U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and others, Wise laid the groundwork for a democratically elected, nationwide organization of 'ardently Zionist' Jews, 'to represent Jews as a group and not as individuals'.[7] In 1917 he participated in the effort to convince President Woodrow Wilson to approve the Balfour declaration in support of Jewish settlement in Mandate Palestine.[8] In 1918, following national elections, this Jewish community convened the first American Jewish Congress in Philadelphia's historic Independence Hall.